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Marc Greenberg
February 07, 2025 at 4:35 pmChinese shippers need to change their supply chain to ship bulk shipments to the USA and file formal entries like the rest of the trade. As is now all Chinese goods using the de minimis entry process take forever to receive as a consumer anyway – this may put Chinese firms in line with Amazon who imports, and warehouses here in the US so that they can compete on last mile delivery. May be a good thing for the logistics industry unless you were handling Temu or Shein style shippers. Not good for Amazon…..